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Cassie Newland
Occupation(s)Historian, Public historian, Archaeologist, Academic
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
InstitutionsBath Spa University

Dr Cassie Newland is an archaeologist, public historian and academic. She is Senior Lecturer in Heritage and Public History at Bath Spa University and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Bristol. She was previously Research Associate at King's College London.[1][2] She regularly appears on historical and science broadcast media as a resident expert, including Time Team, Time Crashers, and Coast.[2]

Education and interests

Newland completed her Masters in Historical Archaeology and PhD in Archaeology in at the University of Bristol.[2] She achieved her PhD in 2006.[3] Her research specialisms include nineteenth century technological colonialism, slavery and the Atlantic, and industrial and contemporary archaeology.[2] Her other historical interests include mobile phones, telegraphy, wireless and radar.[4]

In 2016, Newland was curator for the exhibition Victorians Decoded: Art & Telegraphy a the Guildhall Art Gallery, London.[2] It included a manifestation of The Great Automatic Grammatizator, a fictional machine invited by author Roald Dahl.[5]

Broadcast

Newland has been a presenter and contributor on a variety of television and radio programmes. She has received awards for the public presentation of science.[2]

Years Title Platform
2006 - 2013 Time Team Channel 4
2006 - Coast BBC Two
2010 A History of the World BBC South West
2010 - 2012 Nick Knowles' Original Features[6] UKTV
2012 Urban Secrets Sky Atlantic
2012 - 2013 Wittgenstein's Jet BBC Radio 3
2012 - 2013 New Archaeologies BBC Radio 3
2013 The Genius of Invention BBC Two
2013 The Great War Begins[7] BBC and The Open University
2015 Time Crashers Channel 4
2017 Impossible Engineering UKTV, Yesterday
2019 Impossible Railways UKTV, Yesterday
2020 Ancient Engineering Sky Atlantic, Discovery
Ongoing The One Show BBC One

Selected works

Articles

  • Bailey, G, Newland, C, Nilsson, A and Schofield, J (2009). 'Transit, transition: excavating J641 VUJ.' Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 19 (1). pp. 1-28.
  • Schofield, J, Newland, C, Bailey, G and Nilsson, A (2009). 'Sic transit gloria mundi.' British Archaeology, 92. pp. 16-21.

Chapters

  • Newland, C (2020) 'Economic objects.' In: White, C.L, ed. A cultural history of objects: in the age of industry - volume 5. Bloomsbury, London, pp. 57-76.
  • Newland, C (2009) 'Marconi's first transatlantic wireless transmission.' In: Schofield, J, ed. Defining moments: dramatic archaeologies of the twentieth-century. Archaeopress (BAR), Oxford, pp. 9-18.

References

  1. ^ "Coast: Cassie Newland". BBC. Retrieved 12 May 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Dr Cassandra Newland". Bath Spa. Retrieved 12 May 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ "Newsletter: Graduate School of Arts and Humanities" (PDF). Bristol.ac.uk. April 2013. Retrieved 12 May 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ "Cassie Newland". The Conversation. Retrieved 12 May 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ "Roald Dahl machine brought to life at Guildhall exhibition". Journalism.co.uk. 24 October 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ "Nick Knowles' Original Features Series 1 – 3". Dcdrights.com. Retrieved 12 May 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ "The Great War Begins". Open.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 May 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)


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